Europe’s most highly remunerated environmental award, the German Environmental Prize of the German Federal Environmental Foundation (Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt, DBU) will this year go to two winners who have set new standards in photovoltaics through high achievement in technological innovation: The prize of 500,000 Euros will be shared between the co-founder and chairman of the board of SMA Solar Technology AG (Kassel), Günther Cramer (59), and the researcher-entrepreneur duo Dr. Andreas Bett and Hansjörg Lerchenmüller (both of Freiburg).
Bett (50) is the Assistant Director of the Fraunhofer Insitute for Solar Energy Systems (Fraunhofer-Institut für Solare Energiesysteme, ISE), and Lerchenmüller (45) is the Executive Director of Soitec Solar GmbH. The prize will be presented on October 28th, 2012 in Leipzig by the German President, Joachim Gauck.
